To inaugurate its Complete Keyboard Sonatas by Baroque composer Domenico Scarlatti, Naxos chose Tbilisi-native Eteri Andjaparidze. Russian pianists were among the first artists to champion the cause ...

Three centuries ago a man named Domenico Scarlatti churned out an enormous number of keyboard sonatas — more than 550. Pianists, harpsichordists and even accordionists still can't get enough these ...

"Keyboard works": p.399-412. "Vocal music": p.413-424. "Miscellaneous, doubtful and spurious works": p.425-428. "Catalogue of Scarlatti sonatas and table of principal ...

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is one of the most adaptable of composers, his keyboard sonatas responding both to “historically aware” interpretation on instruments of the Baroque period and to ...

As every clever Scarlatti disc or recital should, this one has had some thought put into the selection and arrangement of the sonatas, rather than just willy-nilly lumping together personal favorites.

The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor ...

Place two objects side by side, invite comparison, and connections will invariably arise. Such was the exercise of Israeli pianist David Greilsammer who, by alternating between the sonatas by Domenico ...

The latest addition to the list of pianists tackling the quirky keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti is 24-year-old Yevgeny Sudbin. He has a formidable technique, copes with the runs and leaps ...

Amid the many things we don’t know about Domenico Scarlatti – no letters in his hand, no autographs of his sonatas – is how he wanted his sonatas to be paired, but it was apparently his intention that ...

Swap the harpsichord for the piano and the fingers really have to move. Angela Hewitt has had years of experience playing Bach on a modern grand piano, which she puts to nimble use in the brilliant ...

Three centuries ago a man named Domenico Scarlatti churned out an enormous number of keyboard sonatas — more than 550. Pianists, harpsichordists and even accordionists still can't get enough these ...